First Phone
Alexander Grahm Bell
- Born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland
- Died on August 2, 1922 in Beinn Bhreagh, Canada
- His mother was hearing impaired
- Excellent piano player
- At age 11 he entered the Royal High School
in Edinburgh
- At 12 he invented a device that efficiantly
husked wheat
- Moved to Canada when he was 23
- Taught at a school for the deaf
- Married one of his students
- They had 4 kids together
Procces of Discovery
- A group of inventors asked him to work on the harmonic telegraph
but was more intrested in the telephone
- He was allowed to work on both, with the majority of his time on
the telegraph
- While working on the telegrah he heard the sound of spring plucked
along 60 feet of wire.
- He soon figured out how to transmit a simple currant
- 5 days later he transmited real speach
Impact
- Could talk to far away people
- easier to use than the telegraph
- Opened up a whole new area of possibility